Excellent overview of a people, place and time, even if I do suspect that Lewis is a wee bit undiscriminating in her love of her subject. It begins with a brief history In 1390, however, Sultan Bayezid began his conquests in Asia Minor. His Muslim troops were unwilling to fight their co-religionists, whom, anyway, they…
Read more Sounds like the direct ancestor of ransomware, doesn’t it?
What, you thought napalm was a new thing? This book will disabuse your mind of that notion pronto. According to Mayor, mankind has been thinking up new and more horrible ways to spread terror and kill more people faster since before Alexander. Beehive bombs. Snake bombs. Poisonous spider bombs. Naphtha bombs. Arrows poisoned with snake…
In honor of the June 1st publication of Silk and Song in trade paperback, here’s a post from the Silk and Song blog tour in January. Between Two Continents with Dana Stabenow From James Joyce’s Dublin to Bram Stoker’s Transylvania, readers everywhere have traveled to regions far and wide. All from the comforts of their…
In honor of the June 1st publication of the Silk and Song trade paperback edition, here’s the December 2017 interview the wonderful Sharon Kay Penman did for Silk and Song on her blog. I am delighted to welcome one of my favorite writers to my blog. My Facebook friends and readers know how much I…
In honor of the June 1st publication of Silk and Song in trade paperback, a post from the Silk and Song blog tour in January. Dana Stabenow, New York Times bestselling author and writer of the popular Kate Shugak series, has recently launched her latest novel Silk and Song. She’s here today talking about research and inspiration.…
In honor of the June 1st publication of Silk and Song in trade paperback, a post from the Silk and Song blog tour in January. Silk and Song is the story of Marco Polo’s granddaughter, Johanna, traveling the Silk Road west from China to England during the years of 1322-1327, picking up strays and making…
Read more Think Route 66, with camels instead of a Corvette.
In honor of the June 1st publication of the trade paperback edition of Silk and Song, a post from the Silk and Song blog tour from December 2017. I read The Adventures of Marco Polo and by his own account he loved the ladies. He was all over eastern Asia for twenty years in service to…
Read more Silk and Song is the story of one of Marco Polo’s grandchildren…
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for your drooling pleasure…the Head of Zeus paperback edition of Silk and Song! Accompanied by a note from Himself: If only.
I was down at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore yesterday, signing the next load of Silk and Song, and Julie said how much she liked the dragon on the spine. I said what dragon on the spine? This dragon on the spine! No one has ever built me a book like this before so it never…
I hiked the Chilkoot Trail in 2000. When I was writing about it for Alaska magazine, somehow I stumbled across the information that women in that time, 1898-1899, wore on average forty pounds of clothes. Can you imagine hiking up that in forty pounds of clothes? That’s, what, like eight 5-pound chickens, or one three-year…
